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The Panther 21 is a group of twenty-one Black Panther members who were arrested and accused of planned coordinated bombing and long-range rifle attacks on two police stations and an education office in New York City in 1969, who were all acquitted by a jury in May 1971, after revelations during the trial that police infiltrators played key organizing roles.[1]
Among the defendants were Afeni Shakur, Lumumba Shakur, Ali Bey Hassan, Michael Tabor, Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph, Abayama Katara, Baba Odinga, Joan Bird, Robert Collier, Sundiata Acoli, Lonnie Epps, Curtis Powell, Kuwasi Balagoon, Richard Harris, Lee Berry, Lee Roper, and Kwando Kinshasa (William King), and Thomas Berry.[2][3][4]
The trial eventually collapsed and the twenty-one members were acquitted of all charges.[5]
- ^ Political Trials in History: From Antiquity to the Present, Ron Christenson.
- ^ newafrikan77 (2016-05-13). "Why The Panther 21 Case Matters and Political Prisoners Should Be Freed and Exonerated". newafrikan77. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Afeni Shakur, Tupac's Mom, Legacy Remembered by Fellow Panthers". NBC News. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ Asbury, Edith Evans (1970-02-01). "16 Black Panthers Go on Trial Tomorrow in State Court Here". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ The Black Panther Party (reconsidered) Charles Earl Jones.
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